Big cities Quote by Richard Peck Download Open image ““Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”” — Richard Peck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big cities Big city Country Friendlier Friendlier Big Small towns Town Towns Friendlier
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s perfectly awful, but… — Joyce Dennys Copy Share Image
“Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more… — Gwendolyn Heasley Copy Share Image
“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.” — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“San Francisco’s a big city, but it can feel like a small town in some ways,” he offered.” — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody,… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and the wide… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; I read because the words that… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment… — Kenneth Prewitt Copy Share Image
My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've… — Michael Urie Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial .… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image